Toe-binding apparatus.



R. F. MCPEELY.

TOE BINDING APPARATUS.

APTLIGATION FILED JULY20|1912,

1,059,310. Patented Apr.15,1913.

, "outrun strains n rrnnir OFFICE- RONALD F. MGFEELY, OF BEVERLY,MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORTTO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OFPA'IERSON,NEWJERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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TOE-BINDING APPARATUS..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1912. Serial No. 710,670.

To a 10/1 out it may concern:

Be it known that I, RONALD F. \l chnnm', a citizenof the United States,residing at Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain In1- provements in '.loe-Bin :lin,g Apparatus, ofwhich the following t'lcscription, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawingsindicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to shoe manufacturing apparatus and particularlytomcans for use in connection with the toe binding operation by whichthe toe portions of up pers on welt shoes, and sometimes other kinds ofshoes, are secured in lasted position preparatory to permanently sewingthe upper to the inncrsolc.

The toe binding 'n'naterial most generally used is soft wire which isusually anchored to a tack on one side of the toe and then pulledtightly around the toe and Secured under tension by wrapping it around atack on the other side of the shoe. In order to anchor the Wire to thefirst tack the workman either holds the end of .the wire with thefingers of one hand while twisting it a number of times around the tackand then drives the tack clown firmly, or else he forms a loop or eye inthe end of the wire with his fingers, aided sometimes by the handle ofhis lasting pincers, and then tightens the loop around the tack andhammers the tack down to make it secure. Either of these proceduresrequires some expenditure of time which it is one object of thisinvention to reduce, and in both cases the wire and the tack are made sofast to the shoe that it is rather ditlicult to remove them after theill per has been sewn to theinnersole and it is an object of thisinvention to reduce this Work. The short end of the binding wire, afterit has been anchored as aforesaid, freqnently projects where it isliable to engage and scratch or mar another shoe as the shoe is beinghandled and placed on the racks with other shoes and it,is a furtherobject of this invention to eliminate this danger of inj from this endof the binder.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the.featnres of the bindeneye forming means lmreinaft er described andinted out in theclahns.

'ihe drawing shows "111 Figure 1 a perspective view representing apreferred embodiment of the eye-forming means upon the machine for whichit was originally designed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, partly insection, of a part shown in Fig. 1. l

The device comprises a post or stud 2 which preferably projectshorizontally from a support, which is shown as the side clamp arm of themachine of my earlier application, Ser. No. 372,055, filed May 6, 1907,said support having a base or plate 4 in which is formed adjacent to thepost a socket 5 to take the end of the binder wire thrust therein, andto hold the binder end while the strand is given a turn about the postto form the eye in the end of the binder. If a stringing tool 6 is usedthe weight of the tool and of the strand will hold the binder eye on thepost ready for use and the tool will be conveniently suspended thereby.The socket 5 forms a prone; on the under side of the eye which willengage the shoe upper and the socket is preferably inclined so that theprong will be inclined downwardly and backwardly toward the body of thebinder.

The socket is so located that the main strand of the binder crosses overthe prong'cd end in position to press and bind the prong; in hold intengagement. with the shoe upper. Thu

wire holder (5 may conveniently be used for manipulating the wire toform the eye by inserting the end of the binder strand into thedownwardly inclined socket 5 to form the prong, then bending the wirefirst downwardly and then upwardly around the post 2 and downwardly.adain across the portion of the strand that is adjacent to the prong.

The novel binder herein disclosed is not claimed in this application butis made the sulJjcct=matter ot' a divisional application Ser. No.726,747, filed Oct. 19, 1919.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States z-- 1. A toe-binder eye-formintrdevice comprising a horizontally projecting posttB, a base plate 4 witha vertical face having, a socket 5 lochtcd near and atone lateral ,side

of the post and-inclined downwardly to receive and form an inclinedprong on the lower side of the binder eye when the strand is carrieddownwardly and around the post, substantially as described.

2. A toe-binder eye-forming dev'iceIcoinprising a-base plate, aneye-t'or1ning post Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

projecting perpendicularly therefrom, and n .Jn testimony whereof I havesigned my prong-forming socket formed in the base naine tothisspeeification in the presence of plate near the post in position toreceive the two subscribing witnesses. I end of the strand find bendthereon a down- RONALD F. MCFEELY.

. wardlyprojecting prone to be overlaid by Witnesses:

the eyewhich is formed by bending the BARTHOLDMEW TfMcDoNoiien, stranctaround the post. CHARLES H. Hon.

